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This is a type of attraction that goes beyond the physical aspect. It stems from affection and daily complicity. You start sharing interests and hobbies with someone, creating a bond through values, dreams and passions. Then, almost without realizing it, love arises. According to psychologist Donn Byrne, this can be attributed to the so-called affect-centered model of attraction.

The Affect-Centered Model of Attraction

People with low self-esteem, who doubt themselves, and feed a negative inner dialogue gradually build the prison of anxiety. It&#039;s the result of insecurity that limits a person&#039;s enjoyment of life and that stems from anguish and restlessness.

Are Anxiety and Low Self-Esteem Related?

Addiction To Sex Or Satyriasis: A True Problem

Many limiting and irrational beliefs reside in your mind that you&#039;ve inherited from others. We&#039;re talking about a psychological record that completely vetoes your potential.

Family Beliefs That Hold You Back and Make You Unhappy

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Do office hours seem never ending to you? If so, maybe you&#039;re being affected by Fraisse&#039;s law. In this article, you can learn what it is and how you can use it to your advantage.

Fraisse's Law: Our Perception of Time

Blue is most people&#039;s favorite color. However, what you might not know is that this type of light is also beneficial for the brain. In fact, it optimizes memory, cognitive efficiency, and well-being.

Science Claims That Blue Light Improves Cognitive Efficiency

Have you ever had the feeling that when you learn something new, you forget other things? This curious phenomenon has a name: the Homer Simpson effect.

The Homer Simpson Effect: Forgetting to Remember

Some discoveries in psychology are the product of serendipity. Also, of open minds capable of making great and unexpected discoveries. 

Nine Serendipitous Discoveries in Psychology

Nowadays, we recognize that no household job is the sole province of the male or female. However, it&#039;s not always taken into account.

Gender Equality Begins at Home: Distributing Household Chores Fairly

All optimal coping strategies begin with acceptance. Without managing an adjusted perspective of what&#039;s happening, it&#039;s difficult to take action. How can this be done?

How to Manage the Impact of a Chronic Illness

I&#039;m facing a diagnosis of a chronic illness. They&#039;re harsh words to hear. There&#039;s no cure, it&#039;s not an injury (I wish it was). However, my diagnosis has made me realize that people with fibromyalgia don&#039;t need pity, they need understanding.

Fibromyalgia: A Sufferer's Account

Environmental health is an important issue on both a collective and an individual scale.

The Importance of Environmental Health

Online consultations with medical professionals have recently become increasingly popular, even more so due to the pandemic.

Psychological Video Consultations: Telemedicine in Mental Health

If you have a relative suffering from Alzheimer&#039;s, here are some tips for caring for them and also for understanding the disease itself. 

Alzheimer's: Advice and Help for Relatives

If it&#039;s difficult for you to face conflict and you prefer to avoid it, here are six tips to help you deal with it.

Six Tips to Help You Stop Avoiding Conflict

Coldness and lack of emotional connection in a partner may be due to their own personal circumstances or the relationship itself. We discuss the reasons why you may feel that your partner isn&#039;t showing you affection and how to address the issue.

Why Doesn't Your Partner Show You Affection?

Starting a relationship with a person who has children usually increases the number and difficulty of challenges you have to face. In this article, we give you some ideas to help.

Nobody Wants to Be the Wicked Stepmother

More and more children are severing ties with their parents. It seems that, by doing so, they manage to live their own lives more peacefully. However, it&#039;s not always the best option for processing differences, conflicts, or disagreements.

Why Are So Many Children Cutting Ties With Their Parents?

When the process of falling in love ends, many couples enter an anguished state. They think that  their love is over or that, perhaps, they&#039;ve chosen the wrong partner. In most cases, this isn&#039;t the case. In fact, it&#039;s a state known as post-romantic stress disorder.

Post-Romantic Stress Disorder

It&#039;s estimated that, from the age of six, children demonstrate intuitive learning. This means that they&#039;re able to learn and make decisions relying only on their hunches.

Intuitive Learning: Acting on Your Hunches

Observation is one of the main elements of the scientific method. It allows the acquisition of valuable information about the object of study. We take a look at the method that&#039;s based on this process: the observational method.

The Observational Method

Have you lately been feeling a greater need to eat sweets? However, when you eat them, do you feel like they don&#039;t taste the same as before? This could be an effect of stress sustained over time. We explain further in this article.

Science Claims That Stress Modifies Your Perception of Taste

A neuromarketing experiment, conducted in Spain, demonstrated that there are specific factors that make a person pay more attention and experience greater intensity in their emotions when faced with certain advertisements.

A Neuromarketing Experiment in the Effects of TV Advertising

Biophotons cause cells to emit light. It&#039;s an interesting phenomenon that, for some, is the result of biochemical processes.

Biophotons: The Influence of Thought

Post-rationalist cognitive psychotherapy is an extremely interesting approach that took root at the beginning of the 21st century. It can be really effective in treating emotional problems.

Post-Rationalist Cognitive Psychotherapy

Some people find physical contact uncomfortable or threatening. This could be due to cultural or personal patterns or unaddressed issues. We tell you the main causes.

Why Some People Dislike Physical Contact

Inspirational people have what Carl Jung defined as a &#039;daemon.&#039; It&#039;s a creative inner voice that drives them to initiate challenges, guided by integrity and an incombustible will.

Inspirational People: What Are They Really Like?

Narcissists don&#039;t choose weak, naive, or easy to control victims. In fact, it&#039;s the opposite. They want smart, talented people so they can benefit from them while, at the same time, improving their own social image.

How Do Narcissists Choose Their Victims?

What&#039;s the name of the discipline that&#039;s responsible for the study of paranormal phenomena at the psychic level? Does it have any scientific validity? In this article, we&#039;ll review these questions and explain what parapsychology is all about.

Parapsychology: Investigating the Psychic and Paranormal

Do you find it difficult to focus your attention only on your studies? Do you find yourself getting easily distracted? If so, don&#039;t worry. In this article we&#039;re going to give you some tips and exercises that&#039;ll help you improve your concentration.

Six Exercises to Improve Your Concentration and Help You Study

Having &#039;chemistry&#039; with someone is a magical experience. It&#039;s a connection that&#039;s orchestrated by a whole cocktail of emotions and neurotransmitters capable of building lasting relationships. Have you ever experienced it?

Interpersonal Chemistry

Task chains are a simple technique. Their objective is to optimize your time, efforts, and motivation. It&#039;s a method whereby you can circumvent those obligatory and annoying activities that you have to carry out.

Task Chains: A Way of Speeding Up Your Tasks

Where has the old you gone? This question can make you rethink both your existence and your identity.

Where Has the Old You Gone?

As humans, we never finish maturing emotionally. However, there are certain attitudes and behaviors that indicate you&#039;ve already traveled a good part of the way. Find out if you possess all of them!

Five Signs That You're an Emotionally Mature Person

The only way to find a stress-free job is to completely rethink work environments. This is because if an employee perceives their position as a threat or their rights are violated, the psychological impact will always be present.

Is it Possible to Find a Stress-Free Job?

In the United States and some other countries, many people have quit their jobs because they consider that they impoverish their lives, even if they enrich their pockets. It&#039;s called the anti work movement.

The Anti Work Movement: A Growing Trend

Work ethics include the beliefs that jobs are defined by values and behaviors and guided by respect, coexistence, a sense of justice, professionalism, and humility.

Work Ethics: Fairness and Equality in the Workplace

Living to work produces an imbalance that affects your quality of life and your relationships with others. These are its main effects.

The Psychological Effects of Living to Work

Sometimes, the one who shines the brightest and has the most talent in a work environment is seen as a threat, both to the rest of the colleagues and to the management itself. High exposure or tall poppy syndrome also has serious psychological effects.

Tall Poppy Syndrome: The Problem of Being a High Achiever at Work

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Have you tried to introduce a new habit into your life but failed? If this is true, you may lack the psychological skills you need to acquire new habits.

Psychological Skills for Acquiring New Habits

Workplace competencies are crucial for finding a good job and being successful at the work you do.

Seven Desirable Workplace Competencies

Counseling skills largely define the quality of a professional. In today&#039;s article, we tell you all about the most relevant ones and how they fit in the therapy framework.

Counseling Skills for Psychotherapy

If you want to develop a skill in a particular area, you need more than natural ability. It takes time and effort to focus on what you want to do, and you have to carefully consider which skill you want to hone in on.

Developing Innate and Learned Abilities

Have you ever noticed how ignorant people often speak with great confidence? And truly smart people constantly question themselves? In the late 90s, two researchers set out to explain this phenomenon and came up with the Dunning-Kruger effect.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect

Soft Skills: What They Are and Why We Should Develop Them

Social Skills in Children: How to Help Children Acquire Them